By: Don Caldwell
How much is a Baby’s life worth?
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A Fertilization clinic in the United Kingdom is offering free fertilization services to a few lucky winners (“Win a Baby”), and this has many people crying about how this belittles the value of children by making them something akin to a commodity…
A new lottery in the U.K. offering contestants the chance to “win a baby” through expensive in-vitro fertilization treatments is causing a stir.
The sweepstakes, run by the fertility charity To Hatch and set to launch this month, is drawing criticism by some ethical and medical groups who say it is “demeaning,” Reuters reports.
Some ethical and medical groups in Britain are outraged at this lottery. Britain's fertility regulator, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, said that this lottery was "wrong and entirely inappropriate," adding in a statement: "It trivializes what is for many people a central part of their lives," Reuters reported.
The founder and chair of the charity, Camille Strachan, told Reuters she wanted to create the "ultimate wish list" for those who are unable to conceive children.
If, as the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority states, children are “for many people a central part of their lives.”, then how can society condone so many of the things that threaten our children?
From fertilization clinics to abortion clinics, the “baby” industry is very much a profitable business. Various groups in the United Kingdom are upset that babies are being treated as a commodity, but are they any more or less a commodity than in the abortion industry? Many people instictivley know that we are all supposed to agree that a baby is “the most precious thing in the world” and all of that, but can you believe in that and still treat them as a commodity?
Can you believe babies to be so precious yet still support abortion? You can either see them as infinitely precious or as something significantly less (not saying that they are still not important to people).
You can’t have it both ways…at the very least it shows how society truly values human life (more than nothing…less than “precious”).
Don’t get me started on all of the toxic products that children are exposed to (children’s’ toys from China for example)
(ORIGINAL LINK) Lottery to Win a Baby Sparks Controversy in Britain - FoxNews.com
This is absolutely ridiculous! We do NOT need any more people on this earth, and to have such a contest is disgraceful! If babies are so "precious", why do couples who have them always complain?! Precious indeed!
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